On Sun, Apr 6, 2008 at 12:30 PM, Mark E. Mallett
<mem(_at_)mv(_dot_)mv(_dot_)com> wrote:
But for something simple, just 'test' doesn't seem all that bad.
there could be a registry of result types, and what the service provides
as a response for each category could be returned for CATEGORY.test
things like
no-complaint-in-last-year.test
recent-complaint.test
no-data.test
listing-disputed.test
convicted-felon.test
this would allow automatic configuration of client software against
conforming services without having to agree on the meanings of the
final octet in 127.0.0.x; it would also provide a migration path to
IPv6, and all the other goodness that comes with an additional layer
of abstraction, such as agreeing on meanings of strings-of-words
rather than agreeing on meanings of bits, and freedom from specifying
the result return mechanism at all --- maybe some kind of private
commercial DNSBL could store up all the requests from a particular
DNS client and communicate a packed result over a secure channel
or something (i am not suggesting to do that, just pointing out that
there are alternatives to returning A records)
This proposal would constitute a new feature rather than a BCP, of course;
if it is a good idea the BCP could refer to standardized testing names
as an external work in progress rather than enumerating them to be
forward-compatible.
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